Francis Garnier
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Marie Joseph François Garnier was a French officer, inspector of Indigenous Affairs of Cochinchina and explorer. He eventually became mission leader of the Mekong Exploration Commission in 19th centur
Lieutenant de vaisseau Francis Garnier
Francis Garnier, as an Enseigne de vaisseau in the 1860s.
Mekong Exploration Commission. Garnier at the left.
Ceremonial dress of Nguyễn Tri Phương, taken as a trophy by Garnier.
Cochinchina campaign
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The Cochinchina campaign was a series of military operations between 1858 and 1862, launched by a joint naval expedition force on behalf of the French Empire and the Kingdom of Spain against the Nguyễ
Capture of Saigon, 18 February 1859 Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio, 1867
Admiral Charles Rigault de Genouilly (1807–1873)
French capture of Saigon, 17 February 1859
USS Saginaw at Mare Island naval yard